Herein an example of liberal fantastical thinking. Completely unbound from reality. Hey, lady. Your hero Obama just paved the way for Iran to get the bomb but that doesn't deserve mention?

Lynn Ringenberg: Why we need to eliminate nuclear weapons

Seventy years ago this week, America became the first nation to use nuclear weapons on another country, dropping nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It’s estimated that 70,000 people died immediately from the Hiroshima explosion on Aug. 6, 1945, and another 50,000 died from radiation within five years. When the U.S. bombed Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, another 40,000 people died instantly. By the end of that year, about 70,000 more people died in Nagasaki from radiation’s after effects.
We physicians know that there can be no meaningful medical or humanitarian response to a nuclear detonation, whether the explosion is planned or accidental. That’s why we feel a responsibility to speak out. At the annual meeting in June, the American Medical Association adopted a resolution urging the U.S. and all national governments to continue to work to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons.
The American public has become complacent about humanitarian harm that nuclear weapons can inflict. As the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Cuban missile crisis recede into the past, fewer people are aware of the incredible devastation of nuclear weapons. That is why, on this 70th anniversary, it is so important for us to remember.
In the years since the Cold War ended, the likelihood of a nuclear catastrophe has gone up, not down. This is due to some disturbing developments, including nuclear weapons proliferation in India, Pakistan, and North Korea, as well as the likelihood of accidents and cyberattacks. A grave danger is posed by “nonstate actors” acquiring weapons-grade nuclear materials. Instability and violence at many flashpoints around the world, including Ukraine, add to a sense of urgency to eliminate these weapons.
The fact is that there still are 16,300 nuclear weapons in the world, many on high alert, able to be launched in less than 15 minutes. For the sake of all nations, these weapons are too dangerous to keep around.
Research published by Physicians for Social Responsibility finds that even a “limited, regional” nuclear war, say between India and Pakistan, would have profound health impacts on all of us. If 100 Hiroshima-size weapons were used in such a war, the climatic effects would devastate world agriculture and put two billion people at risk of starvation.
Statistics like these are sparking a renewed worldwide movement to push for nuclear disarmament. Last fall, 155 of the world’s governments, representing 79 percent of the nations of the world, supported a U.N. resolution calling for nuclear weapons elimination.
In a powerful personal message in Vienna this year, Pope Francis said: “I am convinced that the desire for peace and fraternity planted deep in the human heart will bear fruit in concrete ways to ensure that nuclear weapons are banned once and for all, to the benefit of our common home.”
President Barack Obama promised to pursue a world free of nuclear weapons, but his administration has not delivered. The current plan involves spending $355 billion over the next 10 years on our nuclear arsenal, and $1 trillion over the next 30 years — an absurd waste of taxpayers’ dollars on weapons that must never be used.
It’s time to reflect on past mistakes and time for us to insist that our leaders eliminate nuclear weapons. As the heartbreaking images of human devastation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly show, these weapons have no place in a moral society.

Lynn Ringenberg, M.D., is president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.